Module 1 Our body and Healthy Habits Introduction
Look at these words and expressions. Which of them are connected with illness?
dentist
diet
fat
fit
flu (influenza)
get/catch a cold
health
rare
toothache
unhealthy
wealthy
Read the proverbs and try to explain them in English.
•You are what you eat. %
•Healthy mind in a healthy body. %
•Early to bed, early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. %
•An apple a day keeps the doctor away. %
Vocabulary and Reading
1.Look at these words and answer the questions.
anxious; break (as in break an arm); captain; fever; injure; injury; pain; painful; normal; sweets
1. Which word is connected with food?
2. Which words are connected with body?
3. Which word means usual or ordinary?
4. Which word means leader?
5. Which word means worried about something that may happen?
Zhou Kai (1)
When Zhou Kai's mother saw him heading towards the front door without a jacket on, she eyed him anxiously.
"Zhou Kai, where are you going?" she asked.
"To the park. I'm going to play football," said Zhou Kai.
"But it's raining! You'll catch a bad cold," said his mother.
"No, I won't. I'll be fine," said Zhou Kai, as he opened the door.
"Zhou Kai, you'll get ill. You know you will. You can at least go and get your jacket."
"OK, OK." Zhou Kai went and did as he was told.
Zhou Kai (2)
My mother has always made sure we eat very healthily, and fresh fruit and vegetables are a very important part of our diet. We live near the sea and we have fish about four times a week. We don't eat much fat or sugar. A lot of my school friends eat sweets every day but I'm lucky because I don't have a sweet tooth—I'd rather eat a nice piece of fruit. And I'm not too heavy, so I never have to diet, or anything like that.
I'm quite healthy. I very rarely get colds, although, unusually for me, I had a bad cold and a bit of a fever last week. But that's because I was stupid enough to play football in the rain. I don't often get things like flu either. Last winter almost all my classmates got flu—but I didn't. I think I don't get these things because I take a lot of exercise and am very fit. Two years ago I broke my arm playing football. The injury was quite painful and I couldn't move my arm for a month—I hated that.
So as you can see from what I've said, I'm a normal kind of person. But there's one thing I really love—I'm crazy about football. I'm captain of the class team at school and I'm also a member of the Senior High team. Because of this, I make sure that I have a good diet, and as I've said, this isn't a problem because my mother feeds us so well.
Choose the correct answers.
